Multi-modal Final

Stories for Change

Service Learning 2

The day I worked at the Restore I started out moving chairs around and cleaning some cabinets that had been brought there. After that I then washed a car that had been brought the day before, this took a long time. After that the rest of the day was spent helping unload items being donated. People brought all kinds of stuff, some brought books and similar small items, others brought large furniture, old appliances and similar things which required several people to unload. Overall it was a long day but everyone there was nice and it was a fun experience overall, I might go again after things clear up.

Service Learning Post 1

My volunteering hours were spent at Habitat For Humanity’s Restore. It is is a thrift store they run where items are sold to financially support their work building houses for low income families. Volunteers are necessary to help process items being brought in, to move large thing like furniture, clean the building, etc.

Digital Story Composition Reflection

Composing this digital story presented a peculiar challenge to me on two fronts. 1. I find it hard to talk about myself and I have had relatively privileged life so finding a topic was difficult. 2. I am technologically illiterate so editing was a very new experience. In the end, I think the overall composition turned out well. The issues I felt present in the final version are that the audio quality is not as good as I would have liked it to be in certain sections and I would prefered to have more personal photos, though I found the topic was not very amicable to that.

Digital Story

*The drawing of Hamlet was done by me when the story takes place and is a personal photo.

I have contacted multiple agencies to find out what they are looking for and have only gotten one response yet. My goal is to be able to help those in need in the community. I also want to be able to better understand the perspectives and experiences of people in our community who we often do not listen too. My concerns are mainly with finding an agency that will work well with my schedule and hopefully finding work where I can actually be impactful. I also want to make sure it is work that I can do well, as I am not very experienced in most types of labor. Overall, I am excited though to figure out what I am going to do and start working on it.